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In what will likely be one of the most notable trades of the offseason, the Miami Marlins and the Toronto Blue Jays made a blockbuster trade Tuesday as the Marlins shed some of its payroll...

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The American League and the National League have finally chosen their Rookie of the Year award recipients for the season. The American League winner was almost a no-brainer, but the National League had a tougher...

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One year ago, Washington Nationals catcher Wilson Ramos experienced the most harrowing day of his life as he was kidnapped from his home in Venezuela. Four men took Ramos into a car at gunpoint, holding...

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The Baseball Hall of Fame lost its oldest member Thursday with the death of  former American League President Lee MacPhail at 95. According to the Associated Press, MacPhail died Thursday night at his home in Delray...

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Mark McGwire’s name is known in just about every household, but not for what he had hoped. McGwire is easily one of the most well known performance-enhancing drug users in professional athletics. Now years after...

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Aviles traded…again

November 3, 2012

It sure seems like shortstop Mike Aviles is popular these days. Two weeks after being traded from the Boston Red Sox to the Toronto Blue Jays, Aviles has been traded again. This time he was...

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For Dodger’s catcher A.J. Ellis, his drive to Milwaukee Memorial Hospital on Tuesday is one he won’t soon forget. When Ellis’ wife, Cindy, went into labor, he got her into the car so they could...

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The San Francisco Giants swept the Detroit Tigers in a four-game World Series. The game was in Detroit, but Giants fans had a plan for the game back home. Thousands of people gathered near the...

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That’s it, folks. Baseball is done for the year, and the world’s best has been crowned. For the second time in three years the San Francisco Giants came out on top, complete with monkeys, Kung...

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During a televised Cabinet meeting Friday night, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez joked that with so many of his countrymen playing in this year’s World Series, the event should be played in Venezuela next year, according...

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